86-year-old from Clarendon uses letters to honor S.C. history and tell his story

By Bryn Eddy
bryn@theitem.com
Posted 11/13/24

There is a signed baseball displayed in a curio case with oak framing and glass windows.

It sits behind a name plate, oak, too, with the name Russell D. Mellette engraved with black lettering on gold plating. There are also statues of dachshunds …

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